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The Call Of The Wild: Summary
Number of words: 926 | Number of pages: 4.... damaged, if not completely
wiped out by men who used tools to restrain him. No matter how many times
Buck tried to lunge, he would just be choked into submission at the end.
When Buck arrived at his destination, there was snow everywhere, not to
mention the masses of Husky and wolf dogs. Buck was thrown into a pen with
a man who had a club. This is where Buck would learn one of the two most
important laws that a dog could know in the Klondike. The law of club is
quite simple, if there is a man with a club, a dog would be better off not
to challenge that man. Buck learned this law after he was beaten half to
death by the man .....
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Fahrenheit 451: Similarities To Today's World
Number of words: 469 | Number of pages: 2.... hand that drenched it with melted butter. Mildred watched the toast delieered to her plate.” (Bradbury 18).
The mechanical hound in the firehouse worked as a sercurity system only better. It was a device of terror, a machine whose perverse similarity to a trained killer-dog. It was improves by a refined technology that allows it to inexorably track down and capture criminals by stunnning them with a tranquilizer. This hound would be very useful in today’s society.
The novel reflects censorship because the people can not read books or express themselves. Instead of firemen putting out fires, they started them. They ar .....
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: Influence Of The Setting
Number of words: 1195 | Number of pages: 5.... the characters because they
influenced each other. The citizens followed the crowd and did not have
their own opinions. If some person's idea differed from that of the
majority, he/she would not dare speak up because they feared rejection.
Legree was one of the people looked up to and respected even though what he
was dong was totally wrong. Since he had power and money though, he was
admired. The only three people that actually did take a stand, if you will,
were George Shelby Jr., Augustine St. Clare, and his daughter, Evangeline.
These three characters opposed slavery and tried to do something about it.
(Unfortunately, t .....
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Fantasy Vs. Reality
Number of words: 976 | Number of pages: 4.... understand her for it. These wishes seem easy enough to
grant, but Esperanza soon finds out that there is more to friendship. "If you
give me five dollars, I will be your friend forever." Esperanza discovers that
she can not have anything for nothing. Rachel and Lucy sure enough become her
friends, but only after she helped them pay for the bike. Esperanza never does
truly find a real friend who shares the same goal as she does because all the
friends she has have more problems than her. For instance, Sally was a friend
for whom Esperanza cared for. When Esperanza was raped, Sally was not there to
help her and when Espera .....
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Do You Have A Voice
Number of words: 664 | Number of pages: 3.... Then fifteen minutes later Huck goes into Jim’s wigwam and apologizes. This is showing that Huck does have a voice because any other white person from the south would not apologize to a slave. The slaves were thought of as being lower than any white person and Huck was showing that a slave as equal to him or even better than him because he went and apologized to Jim. By doing this Huck was different and developed a voice because if he had no voice he would have gotten angry with Jim for calling him trash and Huck would not have apologized.
The article, that accompanied my writing assignment, is about a man named Elie Wi .....
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The Repressive Governments Of Zamiatin's We And Orwell's 1984
Number of words: 1966 | Number of pages: 8.... respective books 1984 and We.
These novels depict, ". . . mechanized societies whose citizens are
deprived of freedom through physical and psychological conditioning." (Bloom 17)
The amazing thing about these civilizations is that the majority of the
citizenry, at least publicly, applauds the government's totalitarian actions.
Both Zamiatin's We and Orwell's 1984 have governments that repress thought and
action through the use of physical and physiological force.
One of the most visible ways the government of the United State is able
to control the thought and actions of its citizens is by the use and abuse of a
system by whi .....
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The Things They Carried: Necessities
Number of words: 351 | Number of pages: 2.... carrying when he was shot in the head. Extras such as these really did
nothing more than give the men a false sense of security, which was probably
necessary to cope with their surroundings.
Last but certainly not least they carried with them love, guilt,
memories, and fear of death. Lieutenant cross, for example carried love, guilt,
and even though he tried never to show it, fear. Tim O'Brien shows us this in
the passage shortly after the death of Ted Lavender, "He pictured Martha's
smooth young face, thinking he loved her more than anything, more than his men,
and now Ted Lavender was dead because he loved her so much and .....
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Of Mice And Men: Lennie And George
Number of words: 672 | Number of pages: 3.... far more dangerous than his inner
character reflects. George has to keep a watchful eye over Lennie, for
without constant supervision, Lennie would inadvertently kill anything he
touches.
George has towards Lennie the tenderness and protective instinct which
most have towards the helpless, the disadvantaged, and the dependent.
George has encountered and embraced a responsibility, a social
responsibility, and a humanitarian responsibility. It is to take care of,
protect, save from hurt, the dim-witted, loyal, and devoted Lennie.
George constantly repeats how Lennie is a burden to him, but as George
speaks, and his charac .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: A Satirical View Of The Old South
Number of words: 805 | Number of pages: 3.... that Huck and Jim have a
true friendship. The go out of their way at many times for the welfare of
eachother and they develop a relationship to which they both contribute. Huck
teaches Jim about diversity, priests and rulers in chapter fourteen when he
reads to him about Solomon and Frenchmen. Jim also teaches Huck an important
lesson on how people should be treated individually.
Another example Twain uses to show the hypocrisies of society is racism.
Twain is not attacking the whole issue of race as much as the role race plays in
society. Twain uses race to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the rich and "well
refined." He starts .....
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The Call Of The Wild: Effect Of The Environment
Number of words: 585 | Number of pages: 3.... into the snow and use it to insulate him from the outside air. Buck was built for hard work; he was a huge, muscular and intimidating dog. However, Buck had to learn how to adapt to pulling a sled in every type of snow imaginable.
Buck’s environment was not exclusively made up of his surroundings; those who accompanied him were also a large part of his environment. Many of Buck’s masters helped to transform him into the wild, emotionless dog he became. Each sled driver’s expectations of his or her dogs were truly too high. In five short months, Buck traveled three thousand miles while pulling his masters sled. In o .....
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